I'm writing for Five Minute Friday and today's prompt word is WATCH.
Lord, I watch You at work
and I am amazed
I watch Your
sun rise
in the morning sky
every
single
day
and with it
rise Your new mercies
and I am grateful
I watch You turn a mess
into a message
I watch You turn chaos
into order
I watch You redeem
the wasted
and torn
'dirty'
and turn them
into someone
beautiful
I watch You touch
the impossible
and turn up with possible
I watch You set up
the timing
of solutions
before I even know
there's a problem
I watch You protect Your loved ones
from the enemy's schemes
and weapons,
even when they don't know
what they are
I watch You provide
for Your people
in intricate ways,
that prove the depth
of Your knowledge
and care
and wealth
I watch You hold those
who are hurting,
and heal deep wounds
that no one knew were there
I watch You comfort the grieving
and the confused
and the broken
with Your lovingkindness
and Your truth
I watch You pursue
Your people,
chase them down
with Your love
until You catch them,
again
and again
and again
I watch You do it,
again
and again
and again
I've watched You do it
so many times
and I'm still
watching You do it
But there's so much
I can't watch You do
because it's unseen,
because Your power
and Your tenderness
and Your healing work
need to be private
and hidden
and ministered
and whispered
in the secret place
When I can't see what You're doing,
when I can't watch You at work,
will I still believe
that You are purposeful
and powerful
and faithful?
Must I watch You do it
to believe?
Or can I trust You
when I can't
watch You,
when I can't see
what You're doing?
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! Rom 11:33
............or it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Phil 2:13
Be still, and know that I am God.................. Ps 46:10
Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother...... Ps 131:2
Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me
God is working all the time,
ReplyDeleteand I see Him really clear,
getting things done, really fine,
excepting when He's drinking beer
and has tossed Jesus the keys
while He downs lagers at the pub,
and Jesus rolls His eyes, 'Oh, please!
You're kicking back, but here's the rub:
the humies have messed up the place,
the world's a real grungy disaster,
and I really think the race
to save more souls could sure go faster
if we both would play our parts
instead of playing endless darts.'
We will never run out of God's blessings and goodness to watch! Visiting from FMF#5
ReplyDeleteThat is beautiful, Kath.
ReplyDeleteWow. I really like this. My favorite line: Must I watch You do it
ReplyDeleteto believe?
My heart echoes your words, I believe; help my unbelief. I love the crescendo in this piece, visible steps of faith, the apex of His mystery, and then, in the midst of so many questions, still there is faith. Well done, writer.